The top tax rate was also 90%

Something I imagine you're opposed to

How would you completely stop outsourcing, and allow a single person to work and support such a life

While keeping the population safe, educated, and healthy

That was the top marginal tax rate. It only applied to the dollars earned above 300,000 dollars or something. It wasn't the total tax rate for people in the highest income bracket.

You used to be able to raise a family with a good standard of living on a single working class wage in America

I am no expert in the US economy at the time, I only know from Germany that its market was definitely freer. With us, it was the same however, in 1950 you could raise a family with a working class wage, now you need two parents who are academicians. Here, taxes are to blame for that. You already pay 50% total taxes if your income is above 5k, which is a higher middle class income

A steeply progressive tax rate id argue is needed

90% top

5% on below 30k and 0% for those just entering the work force

Such as 16-21 year olds

(economics are extremely boring)

They are still essential

True.

@Koninos They are but necessary, but there are more important things I'd argue

A king who focuses on the economy only is a bad kind

King

There's a verse on it

Hold up

When the king is concerned with justice, the nation will be strong, but when he is only concerned with money, he will ruin his country.
Proverbs 29:4

A good person knows the rights of the poor, but wicked people cannot understand such things.
Proverbs 29:7

We feel the effects of bracket creep now. It's why I can't take programs serious that talk about only taxing the super-rich. That's what all tax codes wanted to do, and yet here we are, with middle class earners paying the top rate

What is allowing taxes to creep to the middle class

And why are the rich being taxrd less

Genuine question I don't know

I'd wager it's the rich lobbying or having favors done but nothing to confirm

It means that as nominal income rises, people move into the higher tax brackets, even though their real income has stayed the same or even decreased

Too many brackets imo

3-5 brackets max

States are greedy, more greedy than any corporation I ever dealt with. You know how I feel? I feel that my state hates me

And hates my entire family

You are confusing the state with politicians

Everyone talks about taxing the rich as if they were all thieves, and here I am, taxed like I was rich. What can I conclude, except that the state regards me as a thief?

We have politician-states

The problem is politicians

Not the state within of itself

The state produces them

No

Corruption and Money do

Money is the root of all evil, follow the money and you find the evil

If you believed that, you wouldn't beg the rich for their money